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Labor Economics

Labor Economics

This group examines the status and dynamics of the labor market's variables. It also dives into specific themes such as women's and young people's labor market insertion, the evaluation and implementation of public policies that affect the labor market, and the impact of various labor market institutions. The IECON has been studying the labor market for a very long time from both empirical and theoretical angles, with a macro and microeconomic focus.

Lines of research

Public policies

This line of research analyzes how public policies affect the decisions of individuals, families, and companies in different contexts, mainly in the labor market. Work has been done on active employment policies (Uruguay Trabaja), educational programs, proximity programs (Jóvenes en Red), transfer programs (AFAM), pension systems, tax evasion, and labor inspection.

Labor market dynamics

This line of research seeks to analyze the labor market from a dynamic perspective. Specifically, how the decisions of economic agents over time influence future trajectories. We are also interested in studying the link between labor trajectories, job loss, and specific human capital.

Worker-managed businesses

The goal is to compare the behavior of worker-managed and established businesses. Several projects have studied how employment levels and wages are determined, as well as the survival, creation, and destruction of companies or jobs, the factors that hinder the formation of new businesses, worker absenteeism, and the preferences and characteristics of those who work in these businesses.

Discrimination and the labor market

This line of research seeks, mainly through the generation of empirical evidence, to determine the presence of discrimination in the labor market against some groups of workers, particularly women. It also aims to identify the key factors that lead to the disparities between men and women in the job market.

Members

  • Javier Alejo
  • Verónica Amarante
  • Marcelo Bérgolo
  • Pablo Blanchard
  • Matías Brum
  • Paula Carrasco (coordinator)
  • Rodrigo Ceni
  • Andrés Dean
  • Mathías Fondo
  • Estefanía Galván
  • Matías Giaccobasso
  • Cecilia Parada
  • Horacio Rueda
  • Federico Scalese
  • Matías Strehl

Publications (link)

Recent projects and publications

DT 02-23 Employment effects of a social and labor inclusion program

  • Author(s): Blanchard, Pablo - Brum, Matías - Carrasco, Paula - Parada, Cecilia - Perazzo, Ivone
  • Research group: Labor Economics
  • Year: 2023

DT 01-23 Property Rights and Effort Supply

  • Author(s): Blanchard, Pablo - Burdín, Gabriel - Dean, Andrés
  • Research group: Labor Economics
  • Year: 2023

DT-18/22 The demand for domestic work in Chile and Uruguay. Association with time use patterns

  • Author(s): Amarante, Verónica - Scalese, Federico - Cecilia Rossel
  • Research group: Labor Economics
  • Year: 2022

DT-17/22 La respuesta fiscal frente al COVID-19 en Uruguay

  • Author(s): Amarante, Verónica - Scalese, Federico
  • Research group: Labor Economics
  • Year: 2022

Inequality and informality revisited. The Latin American case

  • Author(s): Amarante, Verónica - Arim, Rodrigo
  • Journal: International Labour Review
  • Research group: Labor Economics
  • Year: 2022

DT 15/22 - Sectores de altos ingresos y preferencias por redistribución

  • Author(s): Strehl, Matías
  • Research group: Labor Economics
  • Year: 2022

DT 13/22 - Gender Gaps and Family Policies in Latin America

  • Author(s): Galván, Estefanía - Parada, Cecilia - Querejeta, Martina - Salvador, Soledad
  • Research group: Labor Economics
  • Year: 2022

Dissecting inequality-averse preferences

  • Author(s): Bérgolo, Marcelo - De Rosa, Mauricio - Giaccobasso, Matías - Leites, Martín - Burone, Santiago - Burdín, Gabriel
  • Journal: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization
  • Research group: Labor Economics, Inequality and Poverty
  • Year: 2022

RIF regression via sensitivity curves

  • Author(s): Alejo, Javier - Montes-Rojas, Gabriel - Sosa-Escudero, Walter
  • Journal: Statical Methods & Applications
  • Research group: Labor Economics
  • Year: 2022

The marginalization of southern researchers in Development

  • Author(s): Amarante, Verónica - Zurbrigg, Julieta
  • Journal: World Development Perspectives
  • Research group: Labor Economics
  • Year: 2022

Trade-offs between external knowledge sources for firm innovation in a developing country

  • Author(s): Bello-Pintado, Alejandro - Bianchi, Carlos - Blanchard, Pablo
  • Journal: Industrial and Corporate Change
  • Research group: Labor Economics, Development
  • Year: 2022

DT 09/22 - Consensos y disensos de los economistas en Uruguay

  • Author(s): Amarante, Verónica - Lara, Cecilia - Bucheli, Marisa
  • Research group: Labor Economics
  • Year: 2022
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  • Home
  • About
    • Organization and objectives
    • History
    • Seminars
    • IECON Library
  • Members
    • Faculty
    • Secretary and Library
  • Research groups
    • Macroeconomic Analysis and Trade
    • Development
    • Inequality and Poverty
    • Agricultural, Environmental, and Natural Resources Economics
    • Labor Economics
    • Political Economy and Fiscal Policy
    • Ethics, Justice and Economy
    • Economic history
  • Publications
    • IECON Production
      • Short Run Economic Situation Documents
      • Student Research Documents
      • Working papers
    • Books
      • Book chapters
      • Complete works
    • Peer-reviewed publications
      • Journals
    • Databases
    • IECON 70 years
  • Projects
  • Diffusion
    • IECON in the media